This Blog tracks Where the most famous opera stars are performing now. Stars we track: Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Jose Carreras, Juan Diego Florez, Rolando Villazon, Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Karita Mattila, Elina Garanca, Marcelo Alvarez, Susan Graham, Deborah Voigt, Cecilia Bartoli, Ewa Podles, Magdalena Kozena, Andreas Scholl, David Daniels, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anne Sofie von Otter
Listen LIVE Renee Fleming, Streetcar Named Desire in Chicago
Live on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7:15 pm Central Time at WFMT
A Streetcar Named Desire, Andre Previn
BLANCHE DUBOIS - Renée Fleming STELLA KOWALSKI - Susanna Phillips STANLEY KOWALSKI - Teddy Tahu Rhodes* HAROLD MITCHELL (MITCH) - Anthony Dean Griffey Also Featuring
Domenic Armstrong*, Jane Bunnell, Andrew Bidlack* Conductor - Evan Rogister Director - Brad Dalton*
Renee Fleming makes the case for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ opera
BY KYLE MACMILLAN
March 21, 2013 8:26PM
‘
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE’
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Friday and April 3; 2 p.m. April 6
Where: Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker
Updated: March 24, 2013 9:08PM
Renée Fleming in ‘Streetcar Named Desire,’ at Carnegie Hall
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published New York Times: March 15, 2013
Even with her star power, the soprano Renée Fleming has never been able to entice the Metropolitan Opera into mounting the work that André Previn wrote especially for her, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” adapted from the Tennessee Williams play, with a libretto by Philip Littell. The San Francisco Opera presented the premiere in 1998, and though audiences over all were excited, the critical reaction was decidedly mixed. There have been subsequent productions at international companies. But nothing in New York. Full New York Times Article "Blanche Meets Stanley Anew, Reintroduced as Opera"
Key Arias
A Streetcar Named Desire - "I can smell the sea air" - Renee Fleming Renee Fleming's "Magic"
But the biggest visual talker is probably the unexpected sighting early in the first act that can be deduced by looking at the adjacent, fit-for-print photo. Especially riveting was that this moment unfolded slowly, and quite literally, in the hands of the world’s most celebrated living tenor.
First, a couple notes:
The nudity is contextual, and drawn from Plácido Domingo’s role as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. He sings a passage to his on-stage wife that taps into a famous Neruda love poem called "Sonnet XXVII," that begins “Naked, you are as simple as one of your hands…”
It's certainly a rewarding role for Domingo. The 69-year-old multitasker is always on the lookout for appropriate roles in between his duties as head of the Los Angeles Opera (where this is his fourth mainstage commission) and the Washington National Opera (where his sole new commission was for the young-artist program). The exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in the opera as in Michael Radford's 1994 movie, is an aging but still-sexy artist pondering life and art and his legacy. He is world-renowned and has magnetic charisma. Sound familiar?
But Catán's great success here is his conception of the character of Neruda, and how perfectly it suits Domingo's artistic personality at this stage in his career. Like Domingo himself, Neruda embodies a fascinating combination of youthful romanticism and the canniness and authority of middle age.
Simon Boccanegra
Approximate running time 3 hrs. 19 min.
Five decades into a legendary Met career, Plácido Domingo makes history singing the baritone title role. With James Levine on the podium, Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris star in Verdi’s gripping political thriller.
Updated December 12, 2009 They stood and clapped...for 20 minutes
Even La Scala's notoriously particular audience held their boos as Domingo said goodbye to Milan
By Michael Day in Milan
Saturday, 12 December 2009
EPA / LA SCALA
Placido Domingo acknowledges a rapturous ovation on the 40th anniversary of his debut at La Scala in Milan. One critic said he still had a voice 'stronger than most 30-somethings'
It finished fittingly, with La Scala's audience on its feet, clapping and cheering deliriously for 20 minutes as its favourite tenor tearfully acknowledged the applause and flowers rained down on him.
For the 40th anniversary of
Plácido Domingo's debut at La Scala
December 2009: 09 (20:00)
News Reports on Placido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala:
IL GRAN GALÀ PER PLACIDO DOMINGO ALLA "SCALA"
Il tenore spagnolo, il 9 dicembre, festeggerà 40 anni di carriera sulle note di Richard Wagner
Al Teatro alla Scala il 9 dicembre un concerto straordinario per celebrare i 40 anni dal debutto di Placido Domingo sullo storico palcoscenico milanese.
Source: Milano Web
